Axis & Allies

Like, obviously I grew up and I played Monopoly and Sorry and all that.

But at seven years old, I was invited to play Axis and Allies.

And so then I was in.

It was Axis and Allies and Titan and even like Risk with full players.

And I played so many games from 7 to 15 years old that were 3 plus hours.

I mean, when my brother and I played Axis and Allies, we'd set it up, take turns, walk away, come back the next day, play again.

We played Hero Quest, where... with multiple sessions and all those kind of things.

So my time has definitely come down from those, right into Twilight Imperium and all that kind of stuff in my 20s.

I've played this game a couple times, and the game I use is a game called Polus, which is sort of a very standard tabletop war game.

We play a super modified version of it just to focus on the war, and we also have a limited amount of time, and like any Anybody who's ever played a tabletop game, it's not all Axis and Allies.

Some of them get super complicated, and this is definitely on the more complicated side.

But the biggest thing that our students take away from the war game is, first of all, that kind of national character thing, that it's really hard for a maritime power and a continental power to fight just due to the asymmetric matchup there.

Yeah, it's

like Axis and Allies, but it was a little more new.

Dungeons and Dragons was great for young people.

It was 1981, I think.

So I had to describe to you guys what I was seeing.

That first one was like, all right, you guys ever play Axis and Allies? This is the industrial complex from Axis and Allies.

And Pudge was like, I know exactly what you got.

It is yellow with a purple background.

Eventually, we're going to get through all five games.

The minute that

one flipped, the Axis and Ally ones, the minute the Axis and Allies one flipped over later on, we're like, Axis and Allies! Like, everybody knew it.

Boom, there it is, right? So effectively, what's going to happen is we're going to use 35 of these little tiles out of a bag that's got like 200 in it.

I don't want to say it.

But we used to play a lot of Axis and Allies.

Have you guys played much of that? OK, if you're familiar with Axis and Allies, it's a World War II game.

And one person is playing the Axis, the German, Japanese, or anything.

One person is playing the Allies.

And in the beginning of the game, the Germans have a huge advantage.

They've got all the tanks, they've got all their stuff.

And their whole idea, the only way for the Germans to realistically win Axis and Allies is through blitzkrieg.

Well, I mean, like, you know, we were talking about, like, my early game experience.

When I was, you know, 20 years old, I used to play Axis and Allies games that would last for days.

You know, we would play for a while, and then you'd set it aside, and you'd come back to it, whatever.

Same thing with, like, we would pay risk with a bunch of friends from college.

This means that Renegade is still going to be continuing releasing games that are under the Hasbro license.

This includes Axis of Allies, which they already have, Acquire, Diplomacy, Heroescape, if you're familiar with all of these.

There's also some new games planned for 2027, but they haven't released that out there.

This also means that they're going to continue their work with other groups under the Hasbro license.

And so it matched logic with emotion, strategy.

You know, I love board games and chess and love to play this game called Axis and Allies, you know, where you would strategize long-term moves.

And it just turns out I, I was good at it.

The reward, you know, this profession, we're not unlike nurses and doctors.